The Entrepreneurship mobility idea was first generated within the EUI-Net project during debates that involved also the JEUNE Association for young entrepreneurs, during which the need for cooperation with micro-enterprises was thoroughly identified and analyzed.
Several very important conclusions have been drawn up:

• Universities tend to work more with large than with small businesses.
• Working with small business is important for economic development and education
• Nevertheless, working with small business could potentially generate further small business !
• Today's social system doesn't encourage Universities working with small business because the pay back mechanism is very weak.
• Besides being very busy, this context discourage further entrepreneurs to get in contact with Universities

In this context, it has been decided that EUI-Net continuation project (called EUE-Net) will focus more on small enterprises and a scheme of entrepreneurship mobility will be initiated to investigate possible solutions for the problems above and facilitate direct cooperation and exchanges between the entrepreneurs and Universities
The principle of the proposed scheme was to encourage a trans-national mobility of an entrepreneur who wishes to extend its business in the respective region. Thus, support from the University would be offered by arranging meetings, seminars and courses such as to put the entrepreneur in contact with the local business environment as well as students with entrepreneurial attitude.
If appropriate market opportunities were succesfully identified, the mobility scheme could have a second phase a student visit (longer term visit - a student placement) to the micro-enterprise in order to learn about the business and define the future business extension.
Such mobility scheme was already initiated in the frame of EUI-Net project in January 2007 (Francesca Ungaro visited University Transilvania of Brasov), with a student placement component follow-up in 2008 in the framework of EUE-Net project.